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Tree care guides for Murfreesboro homeowners

Plain-language answers to the questions we hear most: what removal costs, whether the city has a say, why your hackberry keeps dropping limbs, what to do about a dead ash, and how to get ready for March.

Arborist rigging a heavy oak trunk section down on ropes over the roof of a two-story home in a Rutherford County cul-de-sac

Tree removal cost in Murfreesboro

2026 prices by size and what moves the number.

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Old sugar maples and hackberries arching over a street of 1950s brick homes in Murfreesboro, TN

Do you need a permit?

What Chapter 32.5 covers, the right-of-way rule, landmark trees and 811.

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Mature hackberry with a torn limb across a lawn and fence after a summer storm, witches'-broom twig clusters in the canopy

The hackberry problem

Middle Tennessee's volunteer tree — keep it or take it down.

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Trunk of an ash tree killed by emerald ash borer: woodpecker-stripped bark, S-shaped galleries and D-shaped exit holes

Emerald ash borer in Rutherford County

Recognizing it, treating it, and why dead ash gets expensive.

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Crew cutting up a fallen sugar maple across a residential street and a power line after a severe thunderstorm

Tornado & ice-storm tree prep

Which trees fail here and what to do before March.

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Knuckle-boom crane lifting an oak trunk over a two-story house in a Murfreesboro subdivision

Does insurance cover tree removal?

What Tennessee policies pay for and the paperwork to get.

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Got a tree you're worried about?

Free on-site look, written price, 24/7 storm response across Rutherford County.

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